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I've been laid off for about 6 months now and I've still been pretty busy with school work but my finals for summer are over next week and I'm already getting pretty bored at the house all day.
I'm a pretty good programmer and I've been thinking about developing some apps in my spare time to ease the bordum. Only problem is that I'm not very creative at all. So I was wondering if anybody had ideas on applications they would use or maybe even buy if were available?
Thanks!
If possible...
A Twittertab was requested on this forum.
Ahh a twitter tab built into manilla would actually be pretty cool.
Here you go...
Take a look at SRS WOW HD, emulate it and make something like it that will work with MS Voice Commander and Manila....
It is the one app that really makes a big difference to the way the device sounds when listening to music and is very good.
It now conflicts with Voice Command somehow and worse yet, makes your phone not wake up from standby.
That would be a worthy pursuit.....
Cheers
Jabberoo
or maybe an app that changes your homescreen wallpaper maybe every hour or every day to some random wallpaper you have on your phone..
there you go, mate, tons and tons to keep you busy - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=454386
or use the new capabilities of the TP2 to make emulators for other platforms
jabberoo said:
Here you go...
Take a look at SRS WOW HD, emulate it and make something like it that will work with MS Voice Commander and Manila....
It is the one app that really makes a big difference to the way the device sounds when listening to music and is very good.
It now conflicts with Voice Command somehow and worse yet, makes your phone not wake up from standby.
That would be a worthy pursuit.....
Cheers
Jabberoo
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I completely second that! Audio Booster cannot be compared with SRS WOW HD because SRS is waaaay better!
Id like to have some sort of twitter tab/decent app
A great FB app. Currently the ones we have now is pretty weak compared to the ones on BB/iPhone
Yeah I agree, Facebook & Twitter tabs in TF would be great (MS Facebook is rubbish)
I'll get started on a twitter tab come August 12th when I get my TP2
An ebay app that allows you to add watch list ending times as calendar reminders, and to be able to bid would be good. Oh and a decent Football app.
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A great FB app. Currently the ones we have now is pretty weak compared to the ones on BB/iPhone
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Sounds like a good one to me, FB chat is VERY useful.. ...
A working Ventrilo client for Windows Mobile.
Now there has been a program called Centrilo that worked with pre 3.x ventrilo servers and it was golden. Now that they updated the servers the person who made them became tired of the project and released the source code even for the Centrilo app he made.
Just google up Download Centrilo for Windows Mobile you should find it
URL to developers project and source:
http://www.g3gg0.de/wordpress/projects/centrilo
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4257438#post4257438
So, I just downloaded this bad boy and been enjoying it so far. Definitely a lot better than Fring and Nimbuzz. If there was one thing I would change, it would be the option to reduce the size of the avatars and contacts names on the list. With such a large screen, we would be able to fit most, if not all, of our contacts without the need for scrolling.
Anyways, aside from that, my main concern is battery consumption. What are your thoughts so far? How much drain are you experiencing with it? How does it compare to other Multi-IM apps out there?
Let's get some convos going!
PS - BTW, here's the link for the BETA: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
thanks for the heads up... been waiting for this or beejive for the longest
Android Cloud to Device Messaging?
Does anyone know if it uses the new Android Cloud to Device Messaging? If so that should seriously improve its battery consumption over other IM apps.
I haven't tried Trillian but Meebo works just fine. Meebo also has a nice web client that I have been using for years.
Minjin said:
I haven't tried Trillian but Meebo works just fine. Meebo also has a nice web client that I have been using for years.
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I'm a fan of Meebo too..
akarol said:
So, I just downloaded this bad boy and been enjoying it so far. Definitely a lot better than Fring and Nimbuzz. If there was one thing I would change, it would be the option to reduce the size of the avatars and contacts names on the list. With such a large screen, we would be able to fit most, if not all, of our contacts without the need for scrolling.
Anyways, aside from that, my main concern is battery consumption. What are your thoughts so far? How much drain are you experiencing with it? How does it compare to other Multi-IM apps out there?
Let's get some convos going!
PS - BTW, here's the link for the BETA: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-android.html
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Yea i downloaded a few hours ago and its running beautiful. i havent noticed anything when it comes to the battery YET, i will confirm that tomorrow. I also agree with you when it comes to the Avatar size, with my Evo they look way too big. other then that great APP!
Just reading the name "Trillian" makes my blood boil.
I'm enjoying it so far. I like the interface better than eBuddy, and it doesn't show a notification icon while it's running in the background. I'm really impressed with it just being a beta, and I'm looking forward to the updates.
I've been using it and it's the best IM app yet. I'm a bit concerned about battery life though. I receive messages while on background but they're not instant, meaning it looks like the app is polling the server, which would drain the battery as opposed to keeping a push connection.
Update: Okay now all of a sudden my messages are coming right away. Maybe it's push? Also, I've noticed under settings, you can have it send a notification to your push Gmail account when someone IMs you you select "Suspend" instead of "Sign off", which would save a lot of battery.
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Just reading the name "Trillian" makes my blood boil.
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Did you have a thing for her or something?
SilverZero said:
Did you have a thing for her or something?
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LOL. Tried it (desktop version) a few times in the middle of the decade. It was always way too bloated and resource-hungry, yet never had any features I actually wanted or needed. I'm sure the Android version is different, but the brand name means I will never touch it.
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i've been using meebo but use trillian on all my PCs. looking forward to testing this out.
dallashigh said:
LOL. Tried it (desktop version) a few times in the middle of the decade. It was always way too bloated and resource-hungry, yet never had any features I actually wanted or needed. I'm sure the Android version is different, but the brand name means I will never touch it.
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Yeah, I was never a fan myself. But I kinda got tired of IM in college. Started out in the early days of ICQ and Messenger, graduated to AIM, then I just got tired of other people.
Glad you at least got my reference, though.
tried it, looks pretty, not impressed
Tried it looks ok but I really need a client with true push notifications the cloud iphone Type
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Tried it looks ok but I really need a client with true push notifications the cloud iphone Type
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it actually looks like they are using Push for background notifications. That's what I just read on their blog.
zeuzinn said:
it actually looks like they are using Push for background notifications. That's what I just read on their blog.
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I gathered that there is some confusion on what suspended means in that asp and so it is not clear to me what exactly they are doing
i loved trillian back in the day... when i actually IMed people. i may download this just to take a look. nice find.
I like it but I definitely think that the avatars are a bit too large on the Evo. Needs a skin to fix that...
Lets see what the battery impact is...
Video chat support?
I figured this needs a new thread since the others have been derailed by people trying to update!
1) Speed, finally a speedup! The lockscreen is faster, switching apps is faster, the browser is faster (scrolling/zooming/flash video/scrolling with flash video open) , the launcher is faster... I could go on and on about how fast it is now.
2) Smooth 720p flash video playback
3) Mouse support, tried it out and it works great!
4) Joystick support is cool but no apps seem to support it yet, it doesn't show up as a general input device as I had hoped, you have to specifically program for the joystick api I believe.
5) Resizable widgets! Even this operation is silky smooth
6) Scrollable app switching
does it address the wifi driver leak? better yet, documentation or release notes on this update?
Nice post. Thanks for the information. I speak for nearly everyone who at this time hasn't received the update when I say I can't wait to get my hands on 3.1 on my rooted Xoom!
I, for one, am most excited about the following: resizable widgets, mouse support (btw - what kind of mouse are you using? bluetooth or usb/wired?), and most importantly the overall speed-up and bug fixes (such as smoother 720p video playback) across the entire Android Honeycomb OS.
Kudos to Google for knocking it out of the park with this one. Maybe nothing absolutely groundbreaking or super innovative, but all we really wanted anyway was a quality level of polish added to the amazing base OS we already had. That's what we're getting with 3.1. Yay.
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does it address the wifi driver leak? better yet, documentation or release notes on this update?
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There's documentation/changelog posted on the Android developer blog. Look it up. It lists every change in paragraph, essay form (instead of the usuall bullet point list associated with most changelogs).
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how do you resize the Widgets? I've been trying this for an hour.
The quick launch controls for the browser have been updated as well. Very cool. You can scroll pages using the controls without having to scroll up the page.
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how do you resize the Widgets? I've been trying this for an hour.
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It only works on list widgets, like the email and bookmark widgets. Hold down on the widget like you're going to move it and then set it back down.
For those who had tested 3.1 in their Xoom's, there is a improvement in 720p & 1080p video files?
I have the Asus Transformer and wondering about that stuff, since the Xoom owners are the first receiving 3.1
Any video hardware acceleration?
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For those who had tested 3.1 in their Xoom's, there is a improvement in 720p & 1080p video files?
I have the Asus Transformer and wondering about that stuff, since the Xoom owners are the first receiving 3.1
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I don't think that's any different, but I've only tried non high profile video. Still can't play .avi natively.
Thanks. Did anyone notice the Google stock movie app is no longer installed?
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Thanks. Did anyone notice the Google stock movie app is no longer installed?
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I've always only had the gallery app to play movies. The movie rental program is called 'videos'
Edit: Speaking of which, the Videos app has a 'Personal Videos' tab, which shows all of your videos in a nicer display than the gallery app... nice!
sorry, meant the stock movie studio app. To edit videos. Wonder if this was changed for Google movies?
I noticed the broken shortcut for movie studio on the desktop but then opened the apps drawer and the icon there opened it right up. Take a look see if it works for you.
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sorry, meant the stock movie studio app. To edit videos. Wonder if this was changed for Google movies?
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I still have that app
GorfinG said:
sorry, meant the stock movie studio app. To edit videos. Wonder if this was changed for Google movies?
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I still have that app
is portrait mode slow or is there a speed increase?
also has the auto rotate sped up?
If 720p YouTube videos are this smooth in the browser, I can't wait to get an overclock kernel on this thing!
Is there italian language in the 3.1 us rom?
uk release?
When is this hitting the uk? Mine isn't available yet.
>Is there italian language in the 3.1 us rom?
http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.1.html (scroll to bottom)
Don't know if its just me but is anyone else finding Facebook unusable. I updated it the other day for her and now she keeps complaining to me that its takes about half an hour just to scroll threw it as all the pictures are to big and keep taking up the whole screen
It's Facebook's new timeline update. It's how it is. Lol.
Think she will have to get used to it about time her fingers did some work anyway
Yeah, they didnt really take into consideration how the pictures would look on larger landscape devices. I'm sure it looks ok on phones, but tablets....yeah that's a different story.
Had a quick look on it today every picture takes ages to scroll threw. The only good thing is at least she will leave my tab alone now
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had a quick look on it today every picture takes ages to scroll threw. The only good thing is at least she will leave my tab alone now
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moar sandwiches!!!!!
The official Facebook app? I found it lacking in so many ways. Personally use facedroid, but there are other free apps that also beat the official app by miles.
The Root said:
moar sandwiches!!!!!
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I wasn't thinking sandwiches
aktorsyl said:
The official Facebook app? I found it lacking in so many ways. Personally use facedroid, but there are other free apps that also beat the official app by miles.
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Thanks
Friendcaster is my personal favorite.
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official FB app is very lacking on tablets. it's okay on my phone though. For the tablet, I just use the browser and view FB the way it is intended lol.
Swammy1979 said:
Friendcaster is my personal favorite.
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Yes, Friendcaster one of the best and and not hungry for memory.
nikanorov said:
Yes, Friendcaster one of the best and and not hungry for memory.
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Friendcaster is by far the best Facebook app, and FAR better than the official one.
Better interface, faster, easier to navigate, integrated Facebook Chat.
Only problem at the moment seems to be inbox messaging, though I believe that is being sorted.
I tried out Friendcaster and the UI is nice, and seems faster but the photos don't work. They are all pixelated. Also, I had it open and was switching between that and FB for android. Friendcaster was missing a bunch of posts that FB was showing. Not sure what the issues are. Why can't something just work the way it should?
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Why can't something just work the way it should?
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You should get yourself an iPad mate, my wife has one and I can assure you it just works... all the time!
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You should get yourself an iPad mate, my wife has one and I can assure you it just works... all the time!
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Do you really think that was at all helpful? The iPad is not the end all and be all. I vastly prefer my Galaxy Tab because I wanted a full featured tablet computer, not a giant iPod Touch.
Getting back on topic, I agree that Facebook really screwed up their latest update. The pictures aren't handled right at all. It seems they've forced the app to behave like it's on a phone and are snubbing tablets all together.
However, if you don't mind viewing Facebook in portrait mode, it's fine. The photos are only screwed up when viewing in landscape mode. I hope they get their act together and fix it soon.
My friends have iPads and they complain about the same issues. The application does the same on both devices. Its just reformating the mobile page contents...
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I pressed that button on the bottom left in the tray area that zooms in to apps that aren't built for tabs, and it zoomed and stretched and the FB app seems to function better, but it is all kind of grainy and pixelated.
Why faccebook who has so many users, can't update their app to use tab's screen size? After all, tablets become more and more popular and recent days.
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Why faccebook who has so many users, can't update their app to use tab's screen size? After all, tablets become more and more popular and recent days.
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Because whoever is responsible for developing their mobile apps is utterly incompetent. They have always sucked and Facebook really doesn't seem to care, probably because they want people to access the site via web browser so they can shove all their ads in their faces.
well, if you have a tablet, FB is perfectly usable in the browser. As far as the ads, would you rather pay to use FB instead?
Ive tried several video chat apps that I found (Skype, oovoo, Google, etc) but I cannot seem to find one that works very well.
Has anyone found an app that works well ? Probably the only thing I liked about the iPhone was the integration of the facetime app, and now it looks like Blackcerry has something similar on their devices.....
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Ive tried several video chat apps that I found (Skype, oovoo, Google, etc) but I cannot seem to find one that works very well.
Has anyone found an app that works well ? Probably the only thing I liked about the iPhone was the integration of the facetime app, and now it looks like Blackcerry has something similar on their devices.....
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My girlfriend has an iPhone. We use Tango to video chat.
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tango is the best i think
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I use Skype, although pretty infrequently, and haven't had any problems so far. Is there a reason why you like Tango?
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I use Skype, although pretty infrequently, and haven't had any problems so far. Is there a reason why you like Tango?
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It just works. I've had problems with other apps.
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Cool. One thing I've noticed in the past with apps like this is that they tend to drain your battery if you leave them running all the time. Do you notice that with Tango? Or do you only have it open when you expect a call?
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Cool. One thing I've noticed in the past with apps like this is that they tend to drain your battery if you leave them running all the time. Do you notice that with Tango? Or do you only have it open when you expect a call?
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It doesn't really run in the background. I've never had it miss a video call either. In my list of battery stats, it only shows up after I've used it quite a few times.